What TV show(s) will you be watching this season? Why?
Submitted by ducnly.vox.com.
1. Veronica Mars. Duh. The s3 premiere is streaming over at MSN, I think (I dunno I downloaded it), and it is AWESOME. And fills me with hope.
2. THE OFFICE. That's what she said.
3. Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. Even though I forgot to set the tape today.
4. House. Yey for my crush on Hugh Laurie!
5. Lost. I think. I might just wait it out and catch up at the end of the season. I am sick of all the questions.
6. Heroes. Probably.
I need DVR like whoa.
Is there a friend who you owe a phonecall or email? What's stopping you?
Actually, I need to call my friend Jacques so we can hang out, but I'm going to do so tomorrow morning. It's too late to do it now.
I need to call lots of people. I am fairly terrible at staying in touch sometimes.
What movie can you quote by heart?
Submitted by clamhead.
Empire Records
SW: A New Hope
SW: Empire Strikes Back
SW: Return of the Jedi
Dogma
Rattle and Hum
A goodly number of Disney movies
Are you a morning person or a night owl?
Well, if the time shows up on this (it's 4:40 am), you know your answer. Even though I worked an 8 hour shift today at Borders. Heh. That's what I get for working closing shifts. I have to get up for one on Sunday at 10 am... well, I'll have to get u at 8 in order to be functional by 10.
It's not that I have anything against mornings, but yeah. I've had my fill of them in high school and my summer jobs in Boston when I had an hour and a half commute: thirty minute drive to Beverly, 45 minute-1 hour train ride to North Station, then my walk up to the State House.
Alas, if there were only more Dunkin' Donuts in the DC/MD area, perhaps I would see more of the morning.
What's your favorite foreign accent?
I guess Irish accents count, right? Mmm, Irish accents.
What are your plans for the holiday weekend?
I'm watching two dogs for the weekend itself, Monday... not sure. There's a concert I kinda want to go to, or a free play at the Kennedy Center. So I guess I'll see.
What movie would you really recommend renting or seeing this weekend?
I saw it today and it rocked my socks. I am in love with this movie.
Remember sniglets? Do you have any favorites? Have you ever made up your own word? (Now's as good a time as any.)
Uh, no? I mean, my friends and I use strange words that have become in jokes, like "beamish" and grading things opposed to salad (assuming salad is a fairly neutral thing for pretty much everyone), but I don't think we've ever made up a sniglet.
What's the nerdiest thing about you?
There's a lot of things, but I still own all my Star Trek and Star Wars books, including multiple Star Trek "encyclopedias" and multiple books on weapons, vehicles, etc. in Star Wars. It's pretty goddamn nerdy. I was raised a nerd... the first real movie I remember watching is Return of the Jedi, when I was four or five years old.
What was (or is) your favorite subject in school?
Until 7th grade, it was math (and science), easily. Then 8th grade came... I was almost kicked out of school when about a month into the school year I started getting migraines and my attendance was practically nonexistant. I think a lot of them came about from the utter bitch that was my teacher who didn't believe me, and tried to have me expelled. My parents had to pay for tutors, and I was basically home-schooled that year, though my grades still counted at my school. Math was still ok, but my tutor for English and History utterly rocked. We didn't have to stick to what the other kids were reading, so she let me read Lord of the Flies, Michael Crichton's Andromeda Strain, and even a ton of books on ebola. It was pretty awesome. English became my favorite subject.
High school hit and freshman year I don't think I had a favorite subject until the very end of the year. I didn't have trouble adjusting really, but I hated geometry. History was a hard subject to like because we had 4 different teachers during the year. Spanish was ok, but it was easy because I had covered most of it before (side note: my teacher was also my future best friend's mother... I didn't hang out with Charlotte in those days). English was kind of crappy, because I hated the first few books we read... they all seemed like Oprah book club selections to me (and some of them indeed were). (Another side note: Charlotte sat in front of my in English, and while we were friendly-like, we really weren't friends until junior year. So strange.)
Then we read The Odyssey. And true love was born. Oh MAN. During the middle of the book, we were split into pairs and all assigned to teach a chapter. We wrote our own sequals to the Odyssey. I wrote mine IN VERSE (this is how obsessed I was). We gave each other Homeric epithets for names, and for a solid week had to use them when we addressed our other classmates. Mine was "reincarnated Homer." It made me ridiculously happy. I got an A in the class (I particularly remember getting a D on a test on Ellen Foster, so the turnaround was pretty awesome).
Sophomore year was BritLit. The true love that had blossomed now turned into a small obsession, despite the fact that I hate Romantic and Victorian literature. But this was the first time I read Beowulf, Macbeth, and a chunk of the Canterbury Tales. Yessss.
Junior year was ok... the teacher was one of my favorites, so even if I can barely remember what the topic of the class was, I know I enjoyed it. I remember reading Frankenstein (which I didn't like at the time), Dracula (which was awesome and still is), and A Room With a View, which I fucking hated then and fucking hate now. That book blows and I am glad I ran over my copy with my car to prove a point. I think we also read Jane Eyre, but I only pretended to read it (which I have a habit of doing with certain books). Oh, and Pride and Prejudice, which is really quite ok.
Senior year was EXCELLENT because we got to pick our classes. What's funny is I can't remember who or what I had first semester. Second semester, however, I had my teacher from freshman year teaching an utterly insane course on Shakespeare that was made even more insane by me taking it as an Honors class. We read a play a week, if not getting through it faster sometimes. Charlotte and I were once again in this class together, and by that point we were part of a trio of best friends. We were often told by our teacher to stop answering questions. I think we tried not reading a play once, and we still answered all the questions. The class, in short, was one of my favorites, and I love Shakespeare a lot. Yey!
I started college majoring in international studies. This was very silly of me. I switched not even halfway through freshman year to literature. This was a very good thing. Very good. I like books too much. While my dad was supportive of the change (he studied biology in college, worked as an engineer, and ended up a photographer/graphics designer, so he understands about these things), my mother flipped. My uncle took me out to dinner the night before I was going in to do all the paperwork on my major switch... and made me cry in the middle of a French restaraunt because I wanted to study books. This was especially ironic as he was a pre-dentistry major who switched the LAST DAY POSSIBLE to pre-law, and almost didn't graduate on time. Basically, it gave me all the righteous anger and fuel I needed to throw myself into schoolwork... it lasted for quite a while too.
And that is far too long an answer for a questiont that was really quite simple. The answer? English/Literature. Yey!
